The kind of hand transformation from a Lisp-like language into C/asm is described very well in Dan Friedman (2001)'s talk, The Role of the Study of Programming

The kind of hand transformation from a Lisp-like language into C/asm is described very well in Dan Friedman (2001)'s talk, The Role of the Study of Programming Languages in the Education of a Programmer http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dfried/mex.ps http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dfried/mex.ps Friedman is at Indiana, so the similarity in the transformation is no surprise. I'm surprised the arty doesn't mention Friedman.